Ludovic Kieff

Ludovic Kieff was a Red Army general during World War II. In 1941, the Soviet spy Agafon Filenkov reported to Kieff with news that Nazi Germany intended to break the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by cutting down the wire networks of the USSR to prepare for an invasion, Operation Barbarossa. Kieff sent a Red Army sniper to kill German saboteurs who infiltrated the communication facility in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR on 22 June 1941.